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Minidoka County, ID interconnection queue

1 interconnection applications are pending in Minidoka County, ID, requesting 56 MW of new generating capacity, as of 15 August 2026. 1 projects have been built here and 27 have been withdrawn since 2001.

Pending applications
1
of 29 ever filed
Capacity queued
56 MW
requested, not committed
Already built
10 MW
1 projects connected
Built vs decided
3.6%
27 withdrawn
Median wait
1.3 yr
for applications still pending
Connected capacity
28 MW
indicator, see note

Source: interconnection queues published by IP. Parsed and normalised by Watt Street. Data as of 15 August 2026. A queued project is a request, not a commitment.

What is waiting in Minidoka County, by fuel

FuelProjectsCapacity requested
Solar156 MW

Outcomes of every application filed here

OutcomeProjectsCapacityShare
Built110 MW3.4%
Still pending156 MW3.4%
Withdrawn272.6 GW93.1%
Suspended00.0%

Withdrawal is the ordinary outcome of an interconnection application nationally, not a sign of a problem in this county. Most withdrawals are a developer testing a site and moving on.

The largest projects on file

ProjectFuelCapacityStatusFiledQueue
685Solar300 MWwithdrawn2022-11IP
764Solar300 MWwithdrawn2025-03IP
C2-83Solar300 MWwithdrawn2022-05PacifiCorp
642Solar250 MWwithdrawn2022-03IP
40Other200 MWwithdrawn2001-05IP
677Solar200 MWwithdrawn2022-10IP
769Solar199 MWwithdrawn2025-04IP
652Battery180 MWwithdrawn2022-04IP
768Solar150 MWwithdrawn2025-04IP
684Solar145 MWwithdrawn2022-11IP
682Solar100 MWwithdrawn2022-10IP
770Solar56 MWactive2025-04IP
Black Hills EnergyGas55 MWwithdrawn2001-06BPA
28Solar28 MWwithdrawn2001-05IP
30Solar28 MWwithdrawn2001-05IP

Large-load connection requests in this county

Requests to connect large new demand — data centres, industry, electrification — as distinct from generation. 1 recorded here.

RequestCapacityStatusQueueStated end use
Rural Substation7 MWactiveBPAnot stated

494 of the 545 large-load requests we hold state no end use at all, so most cannot be attributed to any industry. Where this table says “not stated”, that is the filing’s own silence, not our omission.

How this county ranks

Minidoka County ranks #1171 of 1,607 US counties by capacity currently queued, and #14 of 27 in Idaho.

Other Idaho counties in the queue

CountyPendingCapacity queued
Elmore County102.5 GW
Ada County112.0 GW
Bingham County81.8 GW
Power County41.6 GW
Owyhee County5993 MW
Canyon County4594 MW
Jerome County2320 MW
Bannock County2301 MW

Go deeper on Minidoka County

The interactive map plots every one of these applications, and a generated county report puts them in a sourced PDF with the date each figure was true on every page.

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